Campaign to Revoke Telkom's Proudly South African Membership

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As you may know Telkom is a founding member of Proudly SA.

I've submitted a letter in protest to their continuing membership.

Write to [email protected] to voice your concern.
 
What an excellent idea. I doubt anything will come of it unless we get the media involved, but I'll definitely submit mine.

Proudly South African is an exciting campaign to promote South African companies, products and services which are helping to create jobs and economic growth in our country.

Supported by organized labour, organized business, government and community organizations, Proudly South African is the way for every South African to do something concrete to support job creation, and help build our young nation.

At the heart of the campaign is the Proudly South African logo. Companies who meet the standards set by Proudly South African can use the logo to identify themselves, their products and services.
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Telkom is guilty on 3 counts right there!
 
ok

yeah, you're right this is good idea. we need to formalize it a bit. give me a few days to come up with a standard email that can be forwarded to proudly south african. any other ideas how we could make this effective? obviously, we need publicity. how about a chain letter?
 
i will FORCE everybody at the office to send one! Telkom must fall!
 
Telkom does support South Africa, by sponsoring teams and basically just marketing themselves more. Telkom is in a position to do this country a S**Tload of good, but for some strange reason, Telkom doesn't.

We need mass action for this one.
 
What are rpm and the other moderators thoughts on this? It would be necessary to have a calculated and united myadsl campaign if this to work.
 
rpm, etc.

Yeah.. RPM... do you think this will contribute to the cause?
 
Hi guys

I think the idea to put additional pressure on Telkom is great, but this route has been tried before (unsuccessfully). Telkom was a founding member of Proudly South African and it is highly unlikely that anything will be done about its status as proudly SA… Finances also start to play a role (if they continue to bankroll PSA it takes a particularly noble man to discontinue their membership) which complicates matters further.

Having said the above, another shot at it can not do any harm. I think a good start is for one or more members to send emails and publish the response. It will give us all an idea about PSA’s position.

Regards,

RPM
 
The best would be to discredit "Proudly South African"

Tell everybody: How does one become a member of PSA? You pay for it! That is the only reason why Telkom can boast PSA status.

Start telling everybody that you are ashamed of being South African, because drivel like Telkom is allowed to claim it is proud to be so. Use the press! Write letters to the papers etc.

Write to the CEO's of other member comapnies telling them that it is disgusting that they associate with Telkom via PSA
 
I can confirm with RPM that this route has been taken.
PSA are aware of Telkom’s position. I doubt if they will ever take steps against them for various reasons. Remember PSA has a set of criteria:

The criteria which must be met before the logo can be used are:

1. The company's products or services must incur at least 50% of their production costs, including labour, in South Africa, and be "substantially transformed" (in other words a product that is merely imported and re-packaged would not be eligible).
2. The company and its products or services must meet high quality standards.
3. The company must be committed to fair labour and employment practices.
4. The company must be committed to sound environmental standards.
Source: PSA

What I can is this.
If companies like Telkom can use the PSA Logo and all the evidence points that the South African Public is been given a raw deal by them, it inevitably will lead to the discredit of PSA. Consumers will not take the PSA Logo seriously and I believe this is the biggest damage to PSA.
 
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one more shot is a good thing, maybe we could write a few to the papers ? i saw the argus had a bit about telkom resently maybe they want to here from those who hate it the most ?

a mailed letter always has so much more impact then a email, mostly becose it can be singed. maybe we could make a standard letter that we can all print out and mail in. some things you may or may not want to include in it would be name, address and id number. if it does make a impact they may want to contact the senders of the compaits for more input.

ether way i will send it !
 
Yeah!

Yeah... we could give it another shot. We've got to keep hammering on the door until it breaks down. If we could get some press coverage on this, that will be enough to send a clear message out there.
 
Erm, so should we try and screw them over? I dont want them around, just like i dont want the traffic light beggars around. (Have you scared your local beggar/robber today?)
 
Should we try to screw them over ? Maybee I'm a bit confused as to whom is screwing whom, but I don't think so.

The bottom line is that every tim I see a PSA logo, I go yeeegh, and that's wrong.
 
As rpm and others have stated, this has been tried before. Which does not mean that it should not be tried again, although perhaps it should be combined with other actions simultaneously. Its easy for Telkom to ignore a few complaints or use their leverage (money) with PSA to belittle any small petition. A mass assault on them, using media, petitions, letters. etc against not just one, but highlighting many of their 'faults', is another story. We have members of this Forum currently engaged in legal actions against Telkom, Sentech and I-Burst through the ASA and various other bodies. I would propose a joint MyADSL assault, letters, petitions, court cases and or ASA hearings, replies etc are more likely to interest the media if there are a lot of complaints, more = bigger story. It would just require communication and organisation/feedback from the members here.
 
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